Cannot modify entity properties in imported dxf

[gaumaugher]

I have a Visio file I saved as a DXF. When I open it in QCad, I can select and delete entities or select and end point of a line and move it with the mouse. I cannot bring up the dialog box to edit the properties. If I add a line, I can edit its properties. Does anyone have any clues on what I can do to fix this issue? If I cannot see the entity properties, I have to start over on the drawings and will lose a lot of hours. Thanks for any suggestions.

[janif]

Have you tried to save your drawing as a new file and reload it. Maybe you could try to exit qcad and restart and reload.

There are many memory leaks in qcad 2.0.5.0 so I wouldn't wonder if restart is sometimes necessary.

[gaumaugher]

Just tried saving the drawing and rebooting Ubuntu with no change. The line that I added acted completely normal and the lines that existed in the dxf export do not show a dialog box when I try to edit their properties. I will try bringing the drawing into Volo View and exporting from there. Maybe it is a Visio problem. I will report back.

I was thinking that Volo View allowed you to save your markup in dxf but it doesn't so I printed it to a pdf and used PDF to DXF converter to get the DXF file. Same result. Any entity existing in the drawing cannot be modified with the edit properties command. Any new entities that I add can be modified.

[andrew]

Those entities you cannot modify might be polylines. Try to explode them.

Use the property editor widget to inspect and display the type of an entity:

View - Toolbars - Property Editor

[gaumaugher]

That was it. All I had to do was explode the line. Thanks.